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Arts Book Club

Phoebe Noyes Kids Visit

Environmental Art

Acquisitions

Medieval Art History

Acquisitions

Services for Students & Faculty

Diana Atwood Johnson

Remembered

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Spring 2018

Reading the Arts: Book Club at Lyme

The Newsletter of The Krieble Library

Starting in January 2018, Krieble Library is hosting the Reading the Arts

Book Club, led by Librarian Amy Slowik. Designed as an outreach pro-

gram and fundraiser, the club can host eight community members at a time

who sign up to read and discuss two art-oriented books. The program lasts

for six weeks. The book club’s first books are Portrait of an Artist: A

Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laura Lisle and The Diary of Frida

Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait, edited by Carlos Fuente. A second

session of the same books with new members will begin at the end of

February. Seats are still available. To sign up, go to Center for Arts

Programming at www.lymeacademy.edu.

For Sale Shelf

Check out our new For Sale Bookshelf. It includes both used and

new art books, magazines, and catalogs that Krieble Library no

longer needs. Prices range from ten cents to five dollars, and

content changes frequently.

Field Trip from Phoebe Noyes Public Library

In October, Krieble Library

partnered with the Phoebe

Noyes Public Library of Old

Lyme to bring a group of K-12

students in to Krieble Library

from the local school system.

The group was led by Phoebe

Noyes’ Youth Services Librarian

Nike Desis (back left). Krieble

librarian Amy Slowik gave the

students an introduction to and

tour of Krieble Library. The students browsed the library’s collection of graphic novels, art

magazines/journals, and books on famous artists like the Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites.

Desis then showed the students how to create their own stickers using photocopies of their fa-

vorite pieces of art. Old Lyme student workers Kellie Dougherty and Chey Bridges assisted the

students with their projects and with browsing the collection. Nike Desis plans to bring another

group of students back to Krieble Library this April.

Environmental Art Book Acquisitions

The library has purchased thirty books focused on art and the environment with funds from the

Schumann Foundation Visiting Artist grant. This year this visiting artist is Professor Ana Flores,

who is currently teaching a class on Environmental Art. Professor Flores recommended the

thirty titles as readings for her course, but the entire library and community benefit because the

books will go into the general collection at the end of the term. Currently the books are availa-

ble for three-hour checkout as Course Reserves at the Circulation Desk, with priority going to

students currently enrolled in the Environmental Art class.

Titles include: Natural Architecture; Andy Goldsworthy: Wood; Andy Goldsworthy: Ephemeral;

Enclosure; Time; The Hidden Wound; Deep River and Ivoryton; Consilience: The Unity of

Knowledge; Olafur Eliasson; Trace: Money, History, Race, and the American Landscape;

Overlay; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art; Blessed Unrest;

Landmarks; David Nash: A Natural Gallery; How, Flat, and Crowded; Changes in the Land;

The World if Flat; Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Change; Hope Is an Imperative:

The Essential David Orr; How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human;

The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Human System; Art and Survival: Patricia

Johanson’s Environmental Projects; On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place; and Cradle

to Cradle: Remaking the Way to Make Things.

Medieval Art History

Books

New to the Lyme campus this semester,

Dr. Charlotte Gray recently received her PhD in

medieval art history from Harvard University and is

teaching a new Medieval Art History course (Art History

Seminar) and Art History II. To support these courses,

Krieble Library has purchased a number of art history

books, including many focused on medieval illumination

and art history methodology.

Medieval art history titles include—Gothic Art: Glorious

Visions; The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture;

Seeing Medieval Art; Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time;

Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church

and the Modern Museum; The Symbolism of Churches

and Church Ornaments; Image on the Edge: The

Margins of Medieval Art; Prague: The Crown of

Bohemia, 1347-1437; The Materials and Techniques of

Medieval Painting; Introduction to Manuscript Studies.

Books on the history of Western art and art history

methodology include—Art History and Its Methods; Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer (see image

above); Interwoven Globe: The W orldwide Textile Trade 1500-1800; Moment of Self-Portraiture in German

Renaissance Art; The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics c. 1250-1750; Sketchbook of Villard

de Honnecourt; Trade in Artists’ Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700.

These books are currently available on Course Reserve at the Circulation Desk for three-hour checkout with

priority given to students currently enrolled in Dr. Gray’s courses. After the semester ends, they will be added

to the general collection for the normal check-out periods.

Services for Students Librarian Amy Slowik is available for one-to-one research sessions. Amy holds a B.A. and an M.A. in art history and can sit down with students who need help with papers and projects. She can help you choose a topic, find sources, clarify an argument, and put together footnotes and works cited.

Services for Professors Amy can also help professors to incorporate information literacy and research skills into their classes. She can show students how to use internet and library resources, including putting together an online library guide (LibGuide) for their course and/or assignment. Please drop in to Krieble Library or e-mail or call Amy for an appointment.

Contact Us

Please consult the library website for current information. We welcome hearing from you. Main Line [860] 434-3571, ext 5198 Amy Slowik [860] 434-3571, ext 5196 aslowik@@lymefs.newhaven.edu Krieble Library Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts of The University of New Haven 84 Old Lyme Street Old Lyme, CT 06371 library@lymefs.newhaven.edu Visit us on the web at www.lymeacademy.edu/index.php/about/Library

Library Portal

Remember: Faculty and currently enrolled students may link to the Marvin K. Peterson Library databases from the Krieble Library website or go directly to the Peterson Library page

at http://newhaven.edu/

library. During our library’s regular service hours we recommend that you work with our library staff for help in us-ing remote-access resources. Need help with your network login? Ask our library staff or follow up with IT.

Diana Atwood Johnson served

as Lyme Academy’s Board of Trustee’s

chairwoman from 1995 to 2003

and from 2010 to 2013. She

helped found Lyme Academy

College of Fine Arts and was

instrumental in the campus’

expansion and the merger

between Lyme Academy and

The University of New Haven.

This also included establishing a

scholarship fund for minorities

who attend Lyme Academy.

Diana was passionate about land

protection and was involved

with Old Lyme's Open Space,

the Connecticut State Natural

Heritage and The Nature Con-

servancy. Related to this was

her passion with wildlife pho-

tography of which she had sev-

eral exhibitions. A friend to

Krieble Library with her donations and support, she will be missed.

Diana Atwood Johnson, 1946-2018

(Top left) One of Diana Atwood Johnson’s photos. (Above) A volume of a multi-book donation made by

her in 2015.